Quick Tip: Chrome Extensions that make GitHub rock

After some annoyances with the latest version of Safari, I switched over to Google Chrome full time. I had every intention of switching back when the kinks were ironed out of Safari, but the extensions available for Chrome have kept me hesitant to leave it behind.

I’m especially enamored with the great selection of GitHub extensions available. This is a list of the ones I use often enough that viewing the GitHub website without them is a shocker. Most of them are unobtrusive while adding functionality which has become essential to me.

Adds Markdown preview in text fields on GitHub that support Markdown input. Great for when you’re wondering how it’s going to render that odd syntax you used for nested code blocks inside a blockquote.

Adds a little “You might also like:” line to the header of any GitHub project. A little obtrusive, but it comes up with some cool suggestions based on the starred projects of other users who have starred the project you’re viewing.

When viewing a repository, a little Octocat shows up in your url bar, and clicking it drops down a full tree view of the repository structure with collapsing sections for quick navigation. That’s awesome.